Finally a day I can feel really good about. I wasn’t sure it was going to be a good day because it began with rain and a doctor’s appointment. But by lunchtime the sun had come out and I had the whole afternoon unscheduled. I got outside and began work on the seemingly endless list of yardwork chores I have to do. I got a lot further down the list than I had any reasonable expectation of doing. One of the things I really like about gardening is that plants want to live almost as much as I want them to. This means that I can put a seedling into the ground and ignore it, then when I come back through and pull out the weeds (which want to live even more than I don’t want them to) the little plant has gotten much bigger. I’ve been in this house for almost 7 years now and so most of the plants in the yard are things that I’ve put in with my own hands. Seeing them flourish is a joy. Right now I’ve got 10 different kinds of flowers blooming in my yard and none of them are things I planted this year.
I’ve got to remember how much getting outside and gardening lifts my mood.